Moving from harvesting the fruits of this year, from bringing in the last sheaf of wheat and to the Apple harvest to the Apple harvest and giving thanks; to shedding a necessary leaf or two or doing some active pruning before the bonfire time
Also, when we shift into the darker half of the year storytelling really comes into its own.
Corn maiden (divine child Persephone/welsh Mabon/mapinus divine son archetypal harp solar hawks/swans/ god of hunt archer deer fusion of Diana/artemis/Apollo) (Mabinogion – translates as exploits of the divine child kiiloch has to ask salmon of knowledge where to find) goes to the underworld for winter months and corn mother Ceres/Demeter withdraws all crops corn hag Cailleach crown Samhain . (Holly & oak Kings swapping roles at solstices).
Balance 21st-24th Equal hours of sunlight and darkness, before the northern hemisphere starts its descent into darkness.
Chinese season of Qiū fēn Autumn divide
29th Michaelmas archangel Michael falling to earth landing on blackberry bush causing them to shrivel last day to eat blackberries
https://druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-festivals/autumn-equinox-alban-elfed
This is a time of farewell and gratitude for the Summer that has been.
At this time, our ancestors saw the Lady who is the Spirit of the Land stand before her people with the full bounty of her Harvest. The symbol of Virgo. Here is the reward of labour and reverence of the Land. This is the fulfilled promise of the days of Spring and Summer. This is a time of wonder and gratitude for the gifts the Lady showers down upon her people.
This time of the turning of the Light into Darkness, Libra’s scales represents the Reckoning of the Year, for Harvest is now complete and the portions are set to feed folk and animals through the cold dark days that lie ahead. As we step forward into the darkening days.